Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-07-13
NASBY AND THOSE FLAGS.
Petroleum v. Was Present When the
Order for Their Return
Was Issued.
His Protests Then Ignored but Aftcrward
Needed, and Thus He Secured tho
ReyOcxtion Of the Order.

HI. Protests Then Ignored but Ancrward
Needed, and Thus He Secured tho
Kevocauon Of the Order.
I am in Washinton jist now by Invita- !
shun nv His Serene Eggslency the Iresi
dent e7 a sort NV advisory comfy to assist
in settlin sich ticklish questions ez ma
arise in the seeded States, wich is now,
thank heven, the Govment | am here ez
n sort NV assistant adviser, my bizuis bein
to ,hro ont seiestions wich git credit for
ef they ar bad and not acted onto, and wich
His Eggslency the President gets credit
for ef they ar good and adoptid. AL gov
ments hev 10 hev sich men, wich is the
price Nv the offices they I'll.
TIE question wich wuz desided yisterdy
mornin wuz the wun NV sendin bak to the
Suthern States the flags and sich wich wux
capchered from EN- by the Northern insur-
gents doorin the late fratrisdle struggle.
The representative NV the South insistid
that them flags shood be returned Tn
whence they Originally came, becoz ther
remainn in the Capital, to wich they he'd
Din brot, wuz proof that they kim hither
by force, ez it wer, Wich wuz ruther agln
;he theory 30 popler al the South that one
Suthern man wuz ez good ez Rve Northern
men; besides wich, it wuz time that the
South be consolidated sgin.
l remarked that to attempt to send bak
them flags and sich wood create feelin in
the North wich wood be oncomfortabl for
his Eggslency. and consekcnly for us.
"Why so?" wuz asked. Did he not veto
the penshun bill, and hez ther ben any mp
risin about that? Eff he kin do thot, why
| not this?"
"My liege and q ntlemen," l replied.
you'll di.kiver that there's a thunderIn
| ste NV difrence between Il penshun and "A
! flag. There's many soljer who woodent
thank ye for n penshun who vii raise sich
a hel ez yco never dreamed NV il We fetch
his military record. Them flags is his
military record, and eff | wu1 in power
here shood let en- severely alone. Troo,
pcnshuns, but the time for the up
rzin ain't jist at hand. That vii sho
itself next year. No man wood more like
TO sc them flags In the South wher we Good
safely kiver EN- with sich romances eZ We
chose; hut lookin at it cZ a praktikle man,
] don't like it. hev offs. l never wuz
more comfortabl in my life hev nothin
speshly to do, and good salary for not
doing it. hev, for the fust time in my
life, credit at Bascom's, and the confidence
NV the community in wich ! reside ez to
inanshel problems. want his Egg, ,slency
re elected in 'Ss, for ! don't want to be
hurled out NV that comfortabl place like a
stun from catapult, and be landed on the
cold and sterile rox NV defeat. prefer to
stay. It's all well enuf this yeer, but ther s
another yeer jist ahed, and"
I've heerd enuf NV this kind nv talk, :"
sed his Eggslency, with a pe1tenshus frown
on his brow. I've heerd enuff nv this
kind NV talk, and vel dispense with it..
I'm responsible to the Dimekratic party,
wich, by the way, am. Wat is the Dime
krntic party?' His royal Highns labers
under the delooshun that all ther is Nv the
loonited States is the kentry south NV the
Ohio River and the lower wards Nv Moo
York City. He hes no noshun Of anythin
else.)
Secretary Endicott said that ez a Massey
choosets man he wuz willin that this be
did,. TIE South he'd bin beaten by soope-
rior numbers, made up NV furrm hire]ins,
and he'd ben hoomiliated enuf. We ar now
apoligizin ard maxim reperashen, and ez a
commencement they he'd bin given bak
everything they had afore the war and con-
siderably more. Ez a Dimekrat it did him
good to see the South at the helum wunst
more, and when the South took the helum
he wanted her to be in controle NV both
eends of the skooner. Troo, it made prac-
ticaly but little difference where the cap
chered flags reely wuz KEEP, but ez the
South seemed to set stres onto hevin Nv em
back, why, the South bein the Convent, it
iidn It become the North to hev anything 10
say about it.
The order wuz determined upon and
ishood at about 10 n. m, and the mornin
wuz spent in innosent hilarity. Ginrel
Hercules McHammer NV Mississippi sed
how wonderful il the finger NV Providence
and how the Lord he'd showed up in the
matter of the late struggle. He (McHam-
merN went into the war actily expectin TO
bust the old Convent and controle the holI
kentry by forse NV arms. But the Lord
rebooked our presumshen. He permitted
as to be whaled in the feeld to sho the
yooselisnis NV the South's apeelin to
arms so long ez they had the Northern Di-
mocrisy 10 depend upon. The South wuz
crushed in the feeld, but wat happened!
The Dimocrisy Nv the North cum promptly
to her aid, and 10! wher ar we now? We
got bslS into the Govment with the addish-
mel representashun that the Niger popela-
shen gave US, without bein al ol worried
with the niger vote. We he'd electid q
President from the North, it is troo, bu,
that wuz only becoz Northern man alluz
wood do more for us than Suthern, and
Wv 'HAs Pih' oinae' "AoA"uihef' Whe
cha"s, ana WIZ saiivatih permiscus, spa
onto the Presidents trousers, wich Secre.
tary Endicott wiped off, and the Ginre
perceeded) we he'd complete controle Nv
the offises, and wuz dictatin the polisy NV
the Convent from stem to stern. The
PRESIDENT he'd vetoed the penshun bil, ant
In oil things else he'd done wat he wuz or
dered to do by them wich made him Presi
dent. Ez to these flags, 1t made but It'll.
Inference wner they wuz Kept; but inezmuci
ez it wood iritate the North. and be al
adishnel guarante NV good faith and entir'
devoshen 70 the South on the part Nv tn
President, he shood insist that they be sen
South. 1t is CRATE thing TO iritate tn
North.
General Rosser, NV vireinny, did no
vo,,t 10 snasblv iritato the Eorfh II.